Proactive Mindfulness
By Serge Prengel
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Description
This podcast explores how we make change happen. Not through simplistic formulas, but by approaching personal change as a living process. We do not force it through willpower; we actively participate in it. This shifts what we mean by mindfulness: it is our ability to stay present and engaged with what is happening as it happens. Over time, we get into what that feels like from different angles, ranging from healing trauma to living everyday life. I bring to this my experience as a therapist, in short talks and conversations with guests, including therapists and mindfulness practitioners.
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Aziz & Maoz: An Israeli and a Palestinian Refuse to Be Enemies
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Aug 26, 2026 |
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Kirk Schneider on Political Polarization, the Vibrant Center & Existential Therapy
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Aug 12, 2026 |
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Procrastination Is a Freeze Response: Everyday Somatics with Jennifer Tantia
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Jul 29, 2026 |
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How the Attention Economy Hijacks Your Nervous System (And How to Reclaim It)
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Jul 08, 2026 |
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Stop Forcing Calm: Experiential Meditation as a Living Process
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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Healing Systemic Shame & Hidden Trauma: Merete Holm Brantbjerg
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May 18, 2026 |
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Healing Trauma & Fragmented Selves | Janina Fisher
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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Scary Does Not Mean Powerful: Mindfulness & Political Outrage
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Gentle Presence: Moving from Reaction to Connection (John Amodeo)
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Why Insight Isn't Enough: Memory Reconsolidation & Corrective Emotional Experience
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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Meditation as Engagement: Mindfulness Is Not a Spectator Sport
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Where do you feel it in your body? Embodied Therapy When the Body Doesn’t Answer
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Embodiment & Self-Regulation in Real Time (with Andrew Rosenstock)
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Stephen Batchelor: Mindfulness Beyond Dogma: A Lived Practice
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Embracing mindful connection & its transformational power
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Andrea Ruhland: Autism & Mindful Parenting
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Mindful Engagement & Personal Growth: A Practical Example
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Engaging with life involves engaging with our body
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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The Unconscious Drama of Trauma Transference
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Julie Nelson: A mindful exploration of power dynamics in spiritual communities
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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How to truly engage with your life: A mindfulness experiment
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Steven C. Hayes: A process-based approach to therapy
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Brenda Shoshanna: an experiential conversation about authority
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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Dan Clurman: Feldenkreis & the body as an organizing system
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Active imagination: Leslie Ellis & Serge Prengel
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Jun 02, 2025 |
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Ven. Gendun: Buddhism & the practice of freedom
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May 24, 2025 |
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Jeff Warren: Coming into presence through connection
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May 01, 2025 |
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Owen Flanagan: What it is like to be an addict
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Mindfulness journey
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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Gregory Kramer: Not knowing, being present in the moment
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Shared meditation informed by Focusing
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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A down-to-earth perspective on non-duality
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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One-minute mindfulness: Embodied presence
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Koshin Paley Ellison: Connection as a spiritual practice
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Peter Levine reflects on his life and work
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May 01, 2024 |
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Pablo Márquez: Photography as a meditative process
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Linda Modaro & Nelly Kaufer: Reflective Meditation
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Raja Selvam: Embodying emotions
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Seth Zuihō Segall: In praise of Pluralism
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Maia Szalavitz: An inspiring perspective on addiction
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May 01, 2023 |
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Kirk Schneider: Life-enhancing anxiety
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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What is Polyvagal-informed Mindfulness?
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Elizabeth English: Gentle mindfulness
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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Noga Arikha: The embodied mind
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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A mindful take on spirituality & philosophy
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Bruce Gibbs: Finding the right distance from our experience
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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Ken Benau: Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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An experiential inquiry into the nature of inquiry
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Lawrence Berger: A quest for meaning
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Jacqui Lewis: Fierce Love
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Jeffery Smith: How psychotherapy works
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Salvador Moreno-Lopez: Sensing into life as a musical improvisation
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Embodied spirituality: a felt sense of something larger
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Cherionna Menzam-Sills: Exploring pre- and perinatal experiences
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Elliot Jurist on the process of mourning
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Jan Winhall: Treating trauma & addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal model
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Oct 01, 2021 |
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Peter Afford: A neuroscience perspective on the felt sense
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Sep 01, 2021 |
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Ron Purser: Beyond McMindfulness
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Monica Gomez Galaz & Özlem Mavis: A felt sense of faith
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Annie Bloch: Focusing as a simple & powerful meditation practice
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Mark Schenker on addiction, part 1: What is addiction
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Jun 01, 2021 |
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Suzanne Noel: What Sustains Me
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May 01, 2021 |
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Bruce Gibbs reflects on his experience with meditation & Focusing
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Apr 01, 2021 |
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Merete Holm Brantbjerg: What Sustains Me
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Gregory Kramer about Buddhism & psychotherapy
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Susan Rudnick: Mindfulness within a broader context
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Merete Holm Brantbjerg: A gentle exploration of stress
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Thinking As Movement
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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Gregory Kramer: A Whole Life Path
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Michael Changaris: The power of mindful touch
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Dec 01, 2020 |
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Francesca Maximé: Embodied anti-racism
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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David Allen: The implicit pressures that shape our clients
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Jan Winhall: Making meaning
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Richard Gillett: The high cost of divisiveness and how to deal with it
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Understanding social myth: Why it’s so hard to find common ground & how to do it
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Harbert Rice: How a felt sense functions in a group
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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Victoria Ramos: Dance with the Divinity which is you (a guided meditation)
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Deb Dana: How the nervous system affects our daily life
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Bruce Nayowith explores experiences of connection
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Judyth Weaver: What Sustains Me (2020)
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Jun 20, 2020 |
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Judyth Weaver: What Sustains Me (2015)
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Jun 20, 2020 |
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Merete Holm Brantbjerg: A gentle, resource-oriented approach to stress & trauma
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Jun 15, 2020 |
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Eric Wolterstorff: Society under sustained stress
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Faith as a human experience
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May 16, 2020 |
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Dave Berger & Joshua Sylvae: How COVID-19 is affecting our work as therapists
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Stephen Porges: Finding meaning in the midst of the Coronavirus crisis
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Greg Cootsona: Finding Grace, Finding Space
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Stephen Porges: Countering the effects of social distancing
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Karyne Wilner: The plastic body
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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Marcella Calabi: Enjoying a mindful conversation
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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Kirk Schneider: Exploring the polarized mind
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Feb 01, 2020 |
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Leslie Ellis: The creative power of dreamwork
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Jan 01, 2020 |
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Sharon Stanley: Conversation about climate change
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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Loch Kelly: Effortless Mindfulness
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Dec 01, 2019 |
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David Mars: AEDP for couples
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Edgardo Riveros Aedo: The emergence of the new
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Sharon Stanley: What sustains me
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Oct 04, 2019 |
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Stacy Reuille-Dupont: Using Exercise Science to Bridge Understanding in Therapy
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Sep 01, 2019 |
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Sharon Salzberg: The process of mindful change
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Sep 01, 2019 |
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Gregg Henriques: A framework to integrate objective view & personal view
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Jul 22, 2019 |